Google technologies can pull far-flung places into your classroom and make historicalevents come alive for your students. Students can express themselves through blogs, collaborative writing, and slideshows. Google provides the necessary tools to bring your classroom or educational institution into the 21st century, while also giving you the means toprotect users' privacy. As a teacher, you can leverage these technologies to share lesson plans and other resources throughout your institution.

This Short Cut is a companion to the Setting Up Google Apps Standard Edition Short Cut, and focuses specifically on using Google Apps and various other Google technologies, such as Google Earth, Picasa, and Notebook, in an educational environment.

William Lawrence

Bill Lawrence is a writer, illustrator, graphic designer, webmaster, and general technogeek with over thirty years of experience. He's the co-author of The Complete Desktop Publisher and author of The GEM Desktop Publisher, and DR. DOS 6.0 By Example. Bill has written dozens of technical manuals and help systems, designed full-color magazine ads, authored courseware, created press releases, designed sales collateral, and created hundreds of illustrations. Bill's books, magazine articles, and technical publications have won nine regional and one international award from the Society for Technical Communication (STC). Bill has also been a speaker at meetings and conferences for the Society for Technical Communication and the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).